ACL Publication Ethics Committee

The ACL has convened a new Publication Ethics Committee, with inaugural co-chairs Dr. Leon Derczynski, Dr. Kokil Jaidka and Dr. Aoife Cahill. This committee will be charged with developing policies and procedures related to publication ethics, including such issues as plagiarism, the use of LLMs in producing reviews, disclosures of e.g. authorial control of papers, and how to handle issues raised about papers post-publication.

Thank you to Drs. Derczynski, Jaidka and Cahill for taking on this important work!

Call for Nomination of ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award

The ACL Dragomir Radev Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual
each year for extraordinary service to the computational linguistics
community. Areas of service include, but are not limited to: association
service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of ACL
in other organizations, or influential service as a government agency
contract monitor or program director, that results in positive effects on the
field of computational linguistics.

The criteria for this award are:

Call for Nomination of ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

The ACL Lifetime Achievement award is, as its name indicates, a recognition
for widely recognized, sustained, and enduring contributions to our field
over a long period. It is not awarded merely for outstanding recent
contributions to a currently hot topic. Candidates for the award will
generally be senior, with a working lifetime of contributions, even though
they will often be active in research.

A nomination package should include the following material:

Call for Nomination of ACL Lifetime Achievement Award

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Dear ACL members,

The ACL Lifetime Achievement award is, as its name indicates, a recognition for widely recognized, sustained, and enduring contributions to our field over a long period. It is not awarded merely for outstanding recent contributions to a currently hot topic. Candidates for the award will generally be senior, with a working lifetime of contributions, even though they will often be active in research.

A nomination package should include the following material:

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Wei Lu Is Selected as the Editor-in-Chief of CL

Wei Lu, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, has been selected as the new Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the Computational Linguistics (CL) journal for five years. The ACL Executive Committee is happy to welcome him on board, and wish him all the best in this very important role for the ACL community.

We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Hwee Tou Ng, who has been serving as the EiC of CL since 2018, for his great contribution to CL and ACL.

New TACL Co-Editor-in-Chief selected for 2024-2026

Dilek Hakkani Tur, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as the new co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACL journal Transaction of the ACL for the staged three year term 2024-2026. She joins Asli Celikyilmaz (Meta) and Roi Reichart (Technion) to work together at the TACL helm. The ACL Exec and the TACL Steering Committee are happy to welcome her on board, and wish her all the best in this very important role for the ACL community!

ACL Fellows 2023

We are delighted to announce that the ACL Nominating Committee has selected five ACL fellows for 2023:

- Mona Diab
- Barbara di Eugenio
- Anna Korohnen
- Roberto Navigl
- Ming Zhou

Computational Linguistics is seeking a new editor-in-chief | Nomination deadline: 20 December, 2023

Computational Linguistics is the longest running premier journal in the areas of natural language processing and computational linguistics. It is an open-access, electronic-only journal with a high impact factor, published by the MIT Press for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Computational Linguistics achieved an impact factor of 9.3 in 2022, an improvement from 7.778 in 2021.

Call for nominations for TACL Co-Editor-in-Chief, 2024–2026 | Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023

The ACL is seeking nominations (self-nominations are permitted and encouraged), for a co-Editor-in-Chief (henceforth “EiC”, with the “co-” understood) of the journal Transactions of the ACL (TACL), serving a three-year term. The successful candidate should be able to start in the beginning of 2024 (or as early as possible).

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